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Originally Posted by VRPdommy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia
Russian organized crime or Russian mafia (Russian: рoссийская мафия, translit. rossiyskaya mafiya,[2] Russian: русская мафия, translit. russkaya mafiya), sometimes referred to as Bratva (Russian: братва: "brotherhood"), is a collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union. The acronym OPG is Organized Criminal (Prestupnaya in Russian) Group, used to refer to any of the Russian mafia groups, sometimes modified with a specific name, e.g. Orekhovskaya OPG. Sometimes the acronym is translated and OCG is used.
Organized crime in Russia began in the imperial period of the Tsars, but it was not until the Soviet era that vory v zakone ("thieves-in-law") emerged as leaders of prison groups in forced labor camps, and their honor code became more defined. With the end of World War II, the death of Joseph Stalin, and the fall of the Soviet Union, more gangs emerged in a flourishing black market, exploiting the unstable governments of the former Republics, and at its highest point, even controlling as much as two-thirds of the Russian economy.[citation needed] Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI, said that the Russian mafia posed the greatest threat to U.S. national security in the mid-1990s.[3]
Organized crime by any name is still organized crime. But you can split hairs if you want.
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again, you are continually attempting to conflate irrelevant timelines and irrelevant facts.
As i've said many times now, I was only responding to the language of your quote. ....
1984
Soviet Union
Russian Mafia
Laundering BILLIONS of USD in foreign countries
and as the article quote said and as i have said already several times... the only "organized crime" in 1984 in the Soviet Union were small time nobodies smuggling jeans and counterfeiting bibles and low level shit, corrupt Communist Party members who were executed when discovered and loose bands of "thieves in law", who by their own rules are required to not have assets, not save money and to spend the bulk of their lives in prison... they were not well structured, global criminal empires laundering BILLIONS of Dollars in foreign countries. They were simply convicts who could not operate within the Soviet System, get good jobs etc and therefore vowed to embrace prison and operating outside the system.
But again, don't let actual relevant facts get in the way of a good Orange Man Bad rant.